anybody else...

IVANKERLEY

IVANKERLEY

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just quit buying knives for yourself, whether it be because of your economic state or just where you are at in life? dunno why, really there's plenty i would like to have but i find myself not having the burning "must haves" that i had the last couple of years. Any other knife nuts just stop buying as of late?
just as happy playing with the few that i have, enjoying my camillus 110 style lockback as of late, hadnt really used it much before, this is a good thing i suppose, as i told myself no safe queens!
maybe i'll grow out of it (needing more knives) or maybe it'll come back worse than ever:D only time will tell
cheers
ivan
 
I've slowed down significantly and really do my homework for a good amount of time before I pull the trigger these days. Mostly because I have a lot of really nice knives so I am finding it difficult to decide what to buy next. One reason is many I am looking for are hard to find so I'm on a daily hunt and prepared to grab the first hard to find knife I see that I hunt for from my list.
 
I've been trying to trade and swap rather than buy when I want to try something new. It's virtually free and more fun.
 
I have also slowed way down on my knife buying. Too many other things I need to take care of.
 
To answer your question....well yes.

I have finally become bored with knives. I wasn’t at all sure my attention span would last the 3 and ½ years that it did when I first began this journey. I have bought and sold a lot of knives, and even traded many.

I’m bored with everything to do about knives really. I will still carry one every day, but it will most likely be a smaller model that will do just fine in getting the job done.
It was a neat hobby (if you can call it that) while it lasted. It seemed more to me like an addiction than anything. Don’t get me wrong, I think knives are useful tools, but to the extent I was into them I think it was a bit extreme. I will always appreciate the fine craftsmanship in what it takes to create and put together a good knife.

It took me a while, but I finally realized that there is no “One” knife for you. There is not “The knife”. It is simply and endless search for something better which will never exist. Once I realized this I decided to stop with the knife thing.

I have sold off some of my knives and traded others. I will keep about 12 knives total. Even that’s a lot of knives to have in my opinion. I will eventually give some away to friends and family and probably keep just a few.

I will end up picking up something else to do and using my time differently from here on out.

I wish you all who may read this, and are into knives, a great journey. I hope you find “The knife”. I know you will not, because it doesn’t exist. You simply have to grab a knife, put it in your pocket and use it….and keep using it. Enjoy the knife, enjoy using the knife, and do other things while carrying a knife. Don’t make the journey “trying to find the ultimate knife”. Instead make the journey, the knife you have in your pocket and all the times you use it.

Life is the journey. We all seem to want to hurry to get to a destination of some sort. Enjoy the journey, because when it’s over, you will wish you had treated your journey as your life. Hurrying towards a destination ruins everything in between.

Keep your chin up. Let God guide you, and love with all of your heart.

Yeah......this may be a little deep for some folks......but oh well. :)

-David
 
I am getting there. I am at the point where I really only want one more folder. (for real) When i get the Rajah, I am done with folders. There are still a few fixed blades but I have made myself a deal, I gotta sell enough other knives to pay for any future ones. No exceptions.:thumbup:
 
David you are as correct. I have been just as you described. I have more knives than I can ever use up in this world. I have just recently felt that I have been buying more knives than I can ever use and it is wrong to keep spending the money when there are other things I could use the money for or put that money in some savings account. There are a few guns I would like to acquire. I have also realized simple knives like my sodbusters more than one of course and my Buck 501 handle my cutting chores just fine. I have searched for that one perfect knife but have not found it. I have come close. My Spyderco Dragonfly is another knife that is a fine EDC. It is not expensive but is a fine little knife. As I write this I have an Orange Spyderco UK Pen knife on it's way to me. This may be the last of my purchases for a while. Just need to figure out what is important and not be wastseful. I love knives but when I die most of my knives will proably be sold off or given a way. I have seen this happen a lot. My son likes knives but not like I do. I do love knives but I am just trying to put things in perspective. Take care.

RKH
 
Aw, come on you guys!
Why all this talk about curbed enthusiasm for knives?
You're killin' this forums already :-)
Perhaps some folks might have just found out the horrible truth that most companies have a habit of hard sell products with flashy pictures, cool talk and overly great deals which does a lot in feeding "the emotionally empty" (read restless and lonely) with mouth watering images of great happiness and guranteed success in life.
Sorry, but that's just what advertising and promotion does.
PR that plays a spin which more often than not decides what direction your money and life's goals should be heading.
It's sad when so many swollow all that slick marketing and glib talk without considering the smaller and natural things in life like personal relationships and above all having a sense of honesty about everything.
So quit fooling yourselves now, because you know you're all probably hooked on knives for life.
Not being able to afford something is in many cases is not a legit reason enough to obtain a little material happiness in life.
Oh, and BTW; how many of you have lost all interest in the opposite sex (or whatever)?
Some things we loose interest in because its biological.
Some gets old faster by loosing all interest (hobbies, falling in love with something) and hope in life...
Think about that for a moment now, would you?
There's a New Year ahead for some of us it seems.
 
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This is some depressing stuff :(

I've cut back a lot on my knife spending, well, my personal knife spending :D It's kinda hard to stop buying knives completely when you have a business to run :cool:

The last knife that I went all out on for myself was my Large Sebenza 21. Great knife that will be with me forever. Ever since I bought it, my "wanting" for more knives has slowed down and almost ceased. My only and most recent purchase was a Doug Ritter Grip, excellent knife as well, and my poor man's sebenza when I'm in the mood to flick it open and closed a couple of times.

This is a hobby/lifestyle that will stick with me 'til the day I die. Hopefully my future children will take over my collection, but the sebbie is gonna be buried with my a$$ :D
 
i've cut back on my knife buying because to be honest am pretty happy with what i have now, takes something really special to grab me nowadays.
 
I have phases like that too, for various reasons.

At the current time, my financial situation has really put the brakes on all unnecessary spending - just started back to work after a three-month layoff, and my new job pays 1/5th as much as the last one. :(

But I know what you mean, there are always on-off periods of knife buying for me. Nothing catches my eye, there are no great sales, I focus on other hobbies for periods, or I've simply been to busy to shop.
 
David Lowry said:
To answer your question....well yes.

I have finally become bored with knives. I wasn’t at all sure my attention span would last the 3 and ½ years that it did when I first began this journey. I have bought and sold a lot of knives, and even traded many.

I’m bored with everything to do about knives really. I will still carry one every day, but it will most likely be a smaller model that will do just fine in getting the job done.
It was a neat hobby (if you can call it that) while it lasted. It seemed more to me like an addiction than anything. Don’t get me wrong, I think knives are useful tools, but to the extent I was into them I think it was a bit extreme. I will always appreciate the fine craftsmanship in what it takes to create and put together a good knife.

It took me a while, but I finally realized that there is no “One” knife for you. There is not “The knife”. It is simply and endless search for something better which will never exist. Once I realized this I decided to stop with the knife thing.

I have sold off some of my knives and traded others. I will keep about 12 knives total. Even that’s a lot of knives to have in my opinion. I will eventually give some away to friends and family and probably keep just a few.

I will end up picking up something else to do and using my time differently from here on out.

I wish you all who may read this, and are into knives, a great journey. I hope you find “The knife”. I know you will not, because it doesn’t exist. You simply have to grab a knife, put it in your pocket and use it….and keep using it. Enjoy the knife, enjoy using the knife, and do other things while carrying a knife. Don’t make the journey “trying to find the ultimate knife”. Instead make the journey, the knife you have in your pocket and all the times you use it.

Life is the journey. We all seem to want to hurry to get to a destination of some sort. Enjoy the journey, because when it’s over, you will wish you had treated your journey as your life. Hurrying towards a destination ruins everything in between.

Keep your chin up. Let God guide you, and love with all of your heart.

Yeah......this may be a little deep for some folks......but oh well. :)

-David
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Wow, David, I can really relate with your feelings. Up till about a year ago, I could not control my knife buying addiction, and my collection grew like hell because of it... I have not sold or traded anything from my collection, nor have I bought a single new knife for myself in a year. However, I have bought many knives as gifts for others.

The beauty in this whole dilemma though is that I discovered knife-making; it's so much more exciting and unique than just buying knives. I find myself actually being able to justify my hobby as something productive and not just a good way to spend disposable income.

Anyway, if anyone else should stumble upon the art of knife-making: find a friend to join you on your journey and keep an open mind.
 
A really good method I've heard for controlling purchases is to never buy a knife for yourself, only ask for them as Christmas/birthday/whatever gifts.
 
I have not lost my interest in knives, but I have lost interest in personally owning large amounts of them. I have never been a knife collector, but I had accumulated more than enough users as I tried different things. I have pared things down to a handlful, and when I want to try a new knife, I let something else go (through swaps if possible, like I wrote above). At the moment, I have eight knives and three multitools.
 
:DAs Ive gotten older -56- I seem to have acquired most of the knives Ive lusted over thru the years and kept the ones i liked and gotten rid of most of the ones I didnt. I dont know if its the different types of knives coming out now or my recently renewed appreciation for the simpler things in life but there,s not a lot of new stuff that I'm really interested in as far as knives go. A good knowledge of well practiced outdoor skillsets accomplished with a simple no frills knife and kit brings me more satisfaction these days than a new 1000$ knife---Just my $.02 for what its worth--KV
 
I've cut back on the expensive stuff for now. Basically talking custom. I had intended to get a Crawford Kasper folder for Christmas, but had to change my mind as some other items came up and it would have been foolish for me to sink that much this month. Instead I picked up a ZT0200, and a Case cigar whittler, at a total of half the price. The next few months will probably see the same type of purchases. A funny thing though, I added up all the orders I had placed with NGK over the past 2.5 years and I had spent over $7,000.00!!:eek::eek: This doesn't not include a few other places I purchased a knife or two from. When I worked that down to a monthly basis it came out to $250.00+, if I remember correctly. So I'm goning to try to get it down to $150.00 a month for a while!


Btw, I have not become bored with knives in any way, if anything I've become more enamored due to the precise craftsmanship going into a lot of them now.
 
I've been on a knife buying frenzy here lately but, I've really slowed down. I'd like to get my hands on a Kershaw Junkyard Dog, a good example of a Benchmade, and maybe a SOG Vulcan, but I'm in no hurry to acquire them.
 
What I would like to add to my previous post is that I love knives and always will! But I have so many knives that there is no way I can use them all up. I will always carry a knife. But will slow down a whole lot on what I buy. It is amazing what some very simple and inexpensive knives can do in regard to daily cutting need. I don't want anyone to think I want always love knives.

RKH
 
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